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The perpendicular style was peculiar to England. On the Conti- 

 nent the fifteenth century gave birth to a variety of " after-Gothic " 

 styles, mostly remarkable for extravagance and want of taste, and 

 which speedily disappeared before the classic form which had already 

 been revived in Italy. In this country, however, Gothic architecture 

 died hard. The English art continued to maintain its individuality 

 for fully a century, though deprived in a great measure of its elevating 

 spirit. The Tudor or Elizabethan manner, though very successful in 

 baronial mansions, and peculiarly applicable to " domestic " purposes, 

 has a distinctly " debasing " effect when applied to ecclesiastical edi- 

 fices. The growing influence of the Renaissance also, in the attempts 

 to graft classic ornaments and composition on mediaeval forms of con- 

 struction, produces often a mongrel effect. In a word, the natural de- 

 velopment of architectural art was arrested. Before the end of the 

 seventeenth century the triumph of the Italian school was complete. 

 The mediaeval art was opprobriously branded with its present name of 

 Gothic, and the sublime fanes which it had produced became, in the 

 language of Sir Christopher Wren, " mountains of stone, huge build- 

 ings, but unworthy the name of architecture." The feeling was, in 

 fact, that we had been traveling along a wrong path, and should re- 

 turn to the point at which the art was left by the Romans. 



At the present day the classic and the mediaeval modes have each 

 their partisans. We will not here attempt to discuss the merits of the 

 rival styles. We will only point out that while the classic art embodies 

 the finished conceptions of the ancient schools of thought, the Gothic 

 is associated with the chain of events which mark the struggle for 

 national liberties. The one represents satisfaction with an existing 

 state of things, the other progress toward an ideal. Having won our 

 liberties, we can study in peace the laws and usages of by-gone ages. 

 Having solved the problem of adapting the ancient art of building to 

 the requirements of modern times, we can indulge our fancy in the 

 selection of our models. Gentleman } s Magazine. 



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INDIAN MEDICINE. 



By G. AECHIE STOCKWELL, M. D. 



THOUGH it speaks little for modern civilization, the masses of the 

 people are wont to esteem the savage as preternaturally wise in 

 the secrets of Nature, more especially in the prevention and elimina- 

 tion of disease, accrediting him with knowledge botanical, pharmacal, 

 and therapeutical, that if possessed of but a shadow of reality would be 

 little less than divine. In this we have interesting evidence of man's 

 tendency to reversion, and of lingering attributes of the final state of 

 his awe in the presence of the occult, and inherent worship of the 



